-Paul’s been working on the kids’ bathroom and they are very excited about having a new bathroom getting to play in the box the vanity came in.
As I was cooking dinner the other night, I overheard Gracie say, “Wesley, some bad guys disguised as me did something really bad and now the police are after me! You have to let me in the box!”
-Tonight, after bedtime:
(clop clop clop) “Mom, can I switch CD’s with Wesley?”
“No. Now go back to bed (clop clop clop) and take off those heels!”
Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
Flash flooding in Queensland, Australia left 10 people confirmed dead and 90 missing. The mayor of Brisbane expects over 19,000 homes to be affected by the flooding.
Below is video of the flood hitting a parking lot full of cars. Also included, a man proving once again that the fine line between bravery and stupidity depends solely on the outcome of one’s actions.
via The Daily What:
“The Frontier is Everywhere” — breathtaking fan-made NASA promo video, lovingly compiled by YouTuber damewse, and “narrated” by Carl Sagan.
In all of their brilliance, NASA seems to have forgotten to share their hopes and dreams in a way the public can relate to, leaving one of humanities grandest projects with terrible PR and massive funding cuts. I have a lot of ideas for a NASA marketing campaign, but I doubt they’d pay me even minimum wage to work for them.
Dear NASA: Don’t mess this up.
From The Daily What-Hans Rosling charts the progress of 200 countries in areas of health and wealth over the course of 200 hundred years in just four minutes.
Because I’m a sucker for graphs (and because my mom is going back to work after having more than a week off and if I don’t distract her with a new post she may eat someone).
Let me guess, your kids played in the snow for twenty minutes before they were wet, cold, and begging to come back inside. So you stuck them in front of the TV and now here you are at the computer. Not proud of yourself, are you?
It’s okay. You aren’t alone. I told my kids they were letting all of the heat out of the house when they kept running in and out of the door and one of them said, “So?”
Now I’m making them watch Alive. That should teach them.
For those of you in Wisconsin and Minnesota, who have gotten 18 and 23 inches, respectively, I’d like to let you know that here in Chattanooga, TN, we’ve gotten an inch of snow and the city is shut down.
Here are some links to ease the pain: read more
This is why I believe everything I see in advertisements.
I also believe some products can not only help me, but also change my life in ways completely unrelated to my original ailment. Believe the hype!
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